EASTinternational is an open submission exhibition

Art exhibition

Art exhibitions are traditionally the space in which art objects meet an audience. The exhibit is universally understood to be for some temporary period unless, as is rarely true, it is stated to be a "permanent exhibition". In American English, they may be called "exhibit", "exposition" or...

 that was launched in 1991 and takes place at the Norwich University College of the Arts. Applications from over 1,000 contemporary artists are received each year with approximately 25-30 artists selected to exhibit. Many artists who are now recognised as important figures had one of their first major public showings at EAST including Martin Creed

Martin Creed

Martin Creed is an artist and musician. He won the Turner Prize in 2001 for Work No. 227: the lights going on and off, which was an empty room in which the lights went on and off.-Life and work :...

, Jeremy Deller

Jeremy Deller

Jeremy Deller is an English conceptual, video and installation artist. He is a Turner Prize winner.Deller is best-known for his Battle of Orgreave , a reenactment of the actual Battle of Orgreave which occurred during the UK miners' strike in 1984.-Life and work:Jeremy Deller was born in London,...

, Matthew Higgs

Matthew Higgs

Matthew Higgs is a British artist, curator, writer and publisher. His contribution to UK contemporary art has included the creation of Imprint 93, a series of artists’ editions featuring the work of artists such as Martin Creed and Jeremy Deller...

, Tomoko Takahashi

Tomoko Takahashi

Tomoko Takahashi is a Japanese artist born in Tokyo in 1966 and based in London, UK. She studied at Tama University, Goldsmiths College and the Slade School of Fine Art. She first came to attention when she won the EAST award at EASTinternational in 1997...

, Zarina Bhimji

Zarina Bhimji

Zarina Bhimji is a Ugandan Asian photographer and film maker, who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2007.-Life and work:...

, Lucy McKenzie

Lucy McKenzie

Lucy McKenzie is an artist based in Brussels, Belgium.McKenzie studied for her BA at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee from 1995–1999 and at Karlsruhe Kunstakademie in Germany in 1998....

 and Runa Islam

Runa Islam

Runa Islam is a Bangladesh born artist based in London, and was a nominee for the 2008 Turner Prize. Islam is principally known for her film works.-Background:...

. Some of these have gone on to win, or be nominated for, the Turner Prize

Turner Prize

The Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised...

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Selectors

Selectors for each EAST are invited by Lynda Morris (EAST curator) and the EAST steering committee to reflect emerging political, social and artistic trends.

2009 Raster and Art and Language
2007 Matthew Higgs

Matthew Higgs

Matthew Higgs is a British artist, curator, writer and publisher. His contribution to UK contemporary art has included the creation of Imprint 93, a series of artists’ editions featuring the work of artists such as Martin Creed and Jeremy Deller...

 and Marc Camille Chaimowicz
2006 Jeremy Deller

Jeremy Deller

Jeremy Deller is an English conceptual, video and installation artist. He is a Turner Prize winner.Deller is best-known for his Battle of Orgreave , a reenactment of the actual Battle of Orgreave which occurred during the UK miners' strike in 1984.-Life and work:Jeremy Deller was born in London,...

 and Dirk Snauwaert
2005 Gustav Metzger

Gustav Metzger

Gustav Metzger is an artist and political activist who developed the concept of Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike. Together with John Sharkey, he initiated the Destruction in Art Symposium in 1966...

2004 Neo Rauch

Neo Rauch

Neo Rauch is a German artist whose paintings mine the intersection of his personal history with the politics of industrial alienation. His work reflects the influence of socialist realism, and owes a debt to Surrealists Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte, although Rauch hesitates to align...

 and Gerd Harry Lybke
2003 Toby Webster and Eva Rothschild

Eva Rothschild

Eva Rothschild is an Irish artist based in London.Rothschild was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her work references the art movements of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Minimalism. She has used materials such as Plexiglas, leather and paper in her sculptural pieces and she also makes wall-based works and...

2002 Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner was a central figure in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s His work often takes the form of typographic texts.- Life and career :...

 and Jack Wendler
2001 Mary Kelly (artist)

Mary Kelly (artist)

Mary Kelly is an American conceptual artist, feminist, educator, and writer. has contributed extensively to the discourse of feminism and postmodernism through her large-scale narrative installations and theoretical writings. Kelly’s work mediates between conceptual art and the more intimate...

 and Peter Wollen

Peter Wollen

Peter Wollen is a film theorist and writer. He studied English at Christ Church, Oxford. Both political journalist and film theorist, Wollen's Signs and Meaning in the Cinema , helped to transform the discipline of film studies by incorporating the methodology of structuralism and...

2000 Keith Piper (artist)

Keith Piper (artist)

Keith Piper is a British artist, curator, critic and academic. He was a founder member of the BLK Art Group, an association of black British art students, mostly based in the West Midlands region of the UK. His work explores multi-media elements such as tape/slide, sound and video within an...

 and Sebastian Lopez
1999 Peter Doig

Peter Doig

Peter Doig is a contemporary artist born in Scotland. In 2007, a painting of Doig's, entitled White Canoe, sold at Sotheby's for $11.3 million, then an auction record for a living European artist.-Early life:...

 and Roy Arden

Roy Arden

Roy Arden is a Vancouver artist.Arden has had solo exhibitions at the Ikon Gallery, Galerie Tanit and Vancouver Art Gallery. Other exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum Basel, and the Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp . His work is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art - was featured in...

1998 Alan Charlton and Michel Durand-Dessert
1997 Nicholas Logsdail and Tacita Dean

Tacita Dean

Tacita Dean is an English visual artist who works primarily in film. She is one of the Young British Artists, and was a nominee for the Turner Prize in 1998.-Life and work:...

1996 Richard Long

Richard Long (artist)

Richard Long is an English sculptor, photographer and painter, one of the best known British land artists. Long is the only artist to be shortlisted for the Turner Prize four times, and he is reputed to have refused the prize in 1984...

 and Roger Ackling
1995 Giuseppe Penone

Giuseppe Penone

Giuseppe Penone is an Italian artist. Penone started working professionally in 1968 in the Garessio forest, near where he was born. He is the younger member of the Italian movement named "Arte Povera", this term has been coined by Germano Celant. Penone's work is concerned with establishing a...

 and Marian Goodman
1994 Jan Dibbets

Jan Dibbets

Jan Dibbets , is a Dutch conceptual artist.In 1994, he was commissioned by the Arago Association to create a memorial to the French astronomer François Arago, known as Hommage à Arago...

 and Rudi Fuchs
1993 David Tremlett

David Tremlett

David Tremlett is a Cornish sculptor, installation artist and photographer. He currently lives and works in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, Great Britain.- Biography :...

 and Konrad Fischer
1992 Helen Chadwick

Helen Chadwick

Helen Chadwick was a British conceptual artist.-Life and work:Chadwick studied at Croydon College of Art, The Faculty of Arts and Architecture Brighton Polytechnic and then at the Chelsea School of Art....

 and Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton
1991 Alexander Moffat and Andrew Brighton

EAST award winners

An award of £5,000 is given to an artist chosen by the selectors to help develop their work.

2007 Patricia Esquivias
2006 Jarrett Mitchell, Ruth Ewan
2005 Award shared amongst all artists
2004 Justin Mortimer
2003 Richard Hughes
2002 Adam Blumberg, Clare Iles, Daniel Milohnic/Dirk Paschke, Hiraki Sawa, Jessica Jackson Hutchins
2001 Zarina Bhimji

Zarina Bhimji

Zarina Bhimji is a Ugandan Asian photographer and film maker, who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2007.-Life and work:...

2000 Jananne Al-Ani, Hew Locke

Hew Locke

Hew Donald Joseph Locke is a sculptor and contemporary British visual artist based in London.-Background:...

1999 Lucy McKenzie

Lucy McKenzie

Lucy McKenzie is an artist based in Brussels, Belgium.McKenzie studied for her BA at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee from 1995–1999 and at Karlsruhe Kunstakademie in Germany in 1998....

1998 Martin McGinn
1997 Tomoko Takahashi

Tomoko Takahashi

Tomoko Takahashi is a Japanese artist born in Tokyo in 1966 and based in London, UK. She studied at Tama University, Goldsmiths College and the Slade School of Fine Art. She first came to attention when she won the EAST award at EASTinternational in 1997...

1996 Jacqueline Mesmaeker
1995 Mary Evans
1994 Stephanie Smith
1993 Kenny Hunter
1992 Victoria Arney, Naomi Dines
1991 Alexander Guy